| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...upbraid him ; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done. When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy, suddenly firing.... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...h'im ; And lit'tle he'll re'ck (if they let him sleep o'n) In the gra've/ where a B'riton has laid hi'm ! But half of our heavy task was do'ne, When the clo'ck/ struck the hour for reti'ring, And we h'eard (by the distant and random g'un) That the foe/ was suddenly... | |
| sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 262 pages
...upbraid him,— But little he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...upbraid him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they '11 let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock told the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...upbraid him ; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun, That the foe was sullenly firing.... | |
| Salem Town - Elocution - 1847 - 420 pages
...him ; But nothing he '11 reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 7. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock tolled the hour for retiring ; And we heard, by the distant, random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. 8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing.... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 178 pages
...upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun Of the enemy suddenly firing.... | |
| Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 180 pages
...upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was suddenly firing... | |
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